2a, Silver Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. House/shop. 1 related planning application.
2a, Silver Street
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-corridor-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- House/shop
- Address
- 2a, Silver Street, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 081 278
- Coordinates
- 51.0423, -3.31169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2A on Silver Street is a 18th-century house and shop that is part of the premises of Monks the Newsagents at No 1 High Street. It features a late 19th-century shopfront and is constructed with render and a hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys and a single bay, located at the junction of Silver Street and High Street. It includes a sash window with glazing bars and a shopfront supported by slender Corinthian columns, along with a wrought iron sign bracket. The left side of the building, facing Silver Street, has a long two-bay elevation with another sash window featuring glazing bars and a 20th-century door. It is reputed to have served as the Roman Catholic Chapel in the early 20th century.
Local climate
2a, Silver Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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